Over The Rhine Premiere ‘Meet Me at the Edge of the World’

By

Eric R. Danton

Aug 26, 2013 4:00 pm ET

Over the Rhine’s latest album has been more than eight years in the making, though the Ohio folk duo hasn’t been idle in the meantime: the husband-wife team of Linford Detweiler and Karen Bergquist put out LPs in 2007 and 2011, too. It’s just that they had a different idea in mind for “Meet Me at the Edge of the World,” a double-album that premieres today on Speakeasy.

The album comprises 18 songs written about, or inspired by, the pre-Civil War farmhouse they bought in southern Ohio in 2005, plus a cover of “It Makes No Difference” by the Band. Those tunes, written while the Over the Rhine was working on other projects, seemed to call for a dedicated space of their own. Listen to “Meet Me at the Edge of the World” below.